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Yes we are definately better than that. A lot better.
Again, dummy. Read the first sentence of my first post in the thread....
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I stood in line behind him while he was purchasing a sandwich at the Atlanta airport once, probably on his way down to Florida to steal our recruits. I was surprised at how short he is. I think it's given him a Napoleon complex. I find the guy absolutely fascinating. He never played college football, he has a law degree from Pepperdine, and he went down and partied in the Keys for a spell after he got fired at Texas Tech. The WSU president had to go down there and track him down to convince him to come back to coaching. I'd never want him as a coach, but he's certainly an interesting character.
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That's my dream there...have enough money to just disappear in the keys for good long while
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As long as you have a storage tool shed or fat little girlfriends, Mike Leach may be interested in the job.
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Oh and
That ain't sweat
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He's a master at blaming the players. Maybe the players need to take some blame sometimes but I know blaming the players doesn't sit well around here.
I'm not worried because Mike Leach will never be coach here.
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I congratulate Fooley for being so inept in the last 6 years that a coach that has so many dings is considered legitimate for our program.I thinkwould say we have had enough "leaches" the last few years...............but hey, wtf is just one more?
There is ONLY one guarantee in life.............death.
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Thats because CUM's offense didnt work in 2005, 2006*, 2009**, or 2010.
*except vs OSU when we allowed Leak to pass downfield
**except during the UC game when we allowed Tevow to pass downfield
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From Stuart Mandel's mailbag blog:
Mike Leach has done some incredible coaching at Texas Tech and Washington State. Where does he rank on your list of current coaches? What do you think the odds are Tennessee, Ole Miss or LSU calls him this offseason? I’d love to see him and his system in the SEC!
Robert, El Paso
So would I. At Florida.
Doug Fletcher, Orlando
Raise your hand if you’re an SEC fan who’s not pining for a more exciting coach right now.
I’d put Leach somewhere in my top 20 — likely closer to 15 than 10. His offensive track record speaks for itself, but I’ve been very impressed with the staff decisions he’s made since he’s been in Pullman. DC Alex Grinch has worked wonders developing that unit into a top 15 national defense. Grinch was an unheralded 34-year-old safeties coach at Missouri when Leach hired him in 2015 to turn around a defense that ranked 99th nationally the year before.
The 6-0 Cougars sure look to be Leach’s best team since his 2008 Texas Tech squad that finished 11-2. If they reach that territory I’d likely move him further up my list.
But does that mean an SEC school will come calling? That’s going to depend on how willing the president and AD are to take on all the unorthodox elements of Leach’s unique personality. It’s worked out nicely for Leach that he’s thus far coached in two remote places with very little media scrutiny. He’s free to go on a 10-minute rant about the need for a 64-team playoff, as he did this week, or blame a loss on players listening too much to their “fat little girlfriends,” as he once did at Texas Tech, without eliciting a week of Paul Finebaum callers.
Unorthodox has not generally played well in the SEC, save for one notable exception — Steve Spurrier. But when you win big from the minute you get there, as Spurrier did at Florida, you can relentlessly poke fun at your rivals or rip your quarterback to shreds and everyone eats it up. If you’re Lane Kiffin and you accuse a rival coach of cheating before you’ve coached your first game, or you’re Ed Orgeron and you rip your shirt off at a team meeting — or you’re Butch Jones and you break out “Champions of Life” — they never let you live it down.
I cannot see Leach at Tennessee, LSU or Florida. Those are cut-throat places where the media ask you why you called a draw on third and 7 and expect a serious answer. Ole Miss would be interesting. Expectations will be lower out of the gate due to the pending NCAA sanctions, Plus, I could see Leach saying he took the job primarily because he loves reading Faulkner and Grisham.
But this being the SEC, the much safer bet is that Ole Miss hires another conference school’s defensive coordinator.
(Scott Olmos / USA TODAY Sports)
Mike Leach has done some incredible coaching at Texas Tech and Washington State. Where does he rank on your list of current coaches? What do you think the odds are Tennessee, Ole Miss or LSU calls him this offseason? I’d love to see him and his system in the SEC!
Robert, El Paso
So would I. At Florida.
Doug Fletcher, Orlando
Raise your hand if you’re an SEC fan who’s not pining for a more exciting coach right now.
I’d put Leach somewhere in my top 20 — likely closer to 15 than 10. His offensive track record speaks for itself, but I’ve been very impressed with the staff decisions he’s made since he’s been in Pullman. DC Alex Grinch has worked wonders developing that unit into a top 15 national defense. Grinch was an unheralded 34-year-old safeties coach at Missouri when Leach hired him in 2015 to turn around a defense that ranked 99th nationally the year before.
The 6-0 Cougars sure look to be Leach’s best team since his 2008 Texas Tech squad that finished 11-2. If they reach that territory I’d likely move him further up my list.
But does that mean an SEC school will come calling? That’s going to depend on how willing the president and AD are to take on all the unorthodox elements of Leach’s unique personality. It’s worked out nicely for Leach that he’s thus far coached in two remote places with very little media scrutiny. He’s free to go on a 10-minute rant about the need for a 64-team playoff, as he did this week, or blame a loss on players listening too much to their “fat little girlfriends,” as he once did at Texas Tech, without eliciting a week of Paul Finebaum callers.
Unorthodox has not generally played well in the SEC, save for one notable exception — Steve Spurrier. But when you win big from the minute you get there, as Spurrier did at Florida, you can relentlessly poke fun at your rivals or rip your quarterback to shreds and everyone eats it up. If you’re Lane Kiffin and you accuse a rival coach of cheating before you’ve coached your first game, or you’re Ed Orgeron and you rip your shirt off at a team meeting — or you’re Butch Jones and you break out “Champions of Life” — they never let you live it down.
I cannot see Leach at Tennessee, LSU or Florida. Those are cut-throat places where the media ask you why you called a draw on third and 7 and expect a serious answer. Ole Miss would be interesting. Expectations will be lower out of the gate due to the pending NCAA sanctions, Plus, I could see Leach saying he took the job primarily because he loves reading Faulkner and Grisham.
But this being the SEC, the much safer bet is that Ole Miss hires another conference school’s defensive coordinator.
(Scott Olmos / USA TODAY Sports)
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